Greetings calendar and the like



J. H. BROWN Dec. 8, 1931 GREETINGS CALENDAR AND THE LIKE Filed MaICh-lO,1951 JANUARY sun Mon TUE wan mu rm l6 I9 20 2/ 22 23 Z4 Z5 Z Z7 28 29 503/ INVENTO R,

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JAMES HANDFORD BROWN, OF GOYTESVILLE, NEW JERSEY GREETINGS CALENDARAND'THE inn Application filed March 10, isaiJs'eriai No. 521,448. 1

The object of this invention is to provide a greetings device adapted toenclose a piece ofjcurrency or other token and to expose some picturethereon, as the central vignette found on United States bills, and alsoto expose a piece of currency and bearing therein, opposite theaperture, the second named picture. In the form herein shown the cardmay have, projecting from the main portion or panel thereof which hasthe aperture, means whereby it may be set up upright, easel-fashion, asa pair of lateral wings projecting from the panel and capable of beingbent backwardas supports. The device so constructed may bear someadvertising matter of the donor and in addition, to make it useful tothe recipient, a calendar or equivalent pad or the like. 1

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a front QlBValZIOD-Of the device,

showing the bill in place;

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the billremoved and showing the picture;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation; and Fig. 4 shows the envelope inperspective. Let 1 designate a panel of stifi paper or cardboard. Thismay have applied to its obverse face a calendar, memorandum or the like2, which is here arranged near the base of the panel and at its frontside. At 3 is an aperture, preferably elliptical since usually thevignette'or the like on the paper money to be exposed by said openinghas thz t form. 'Attached to the reverse face of the panel 1 is anenvelope 4 of sheet material, as paper, which hasa picture 5 displayedthereon and is so arranged that the picture is opposite and maybe seenat the aperture'when not covered. In the preferred form this en.

velope is formed from an elongated sheet of paper folded transversely atabout its middle, one layer 4a thereof bearing on its inside or obverseface the picture 5 and the other layer 4b'having an aperture 6 whichregisters with the picture in the folded condition of exposed.

the envelope and also having side flaps 7 which are glued (as at 8)'o1'pasted to the layer 4a, thus leaving the envelope open at 9 to admit thebill. This envelope is glued, as at 10, to the back of the panel withits open ing 9 up and so that its aperture 6 registers with aperture 3of the panel. I might employ for the envelope a single thickness ofpaper having the picture except that with such a construction theenvelope cannot-open sufficiently to readily admit the bill unless it isof ample width, which in many cases is not possible owing to the limitedwidth of the. panel; by providing an envelope having 1 a rear wall 4aand a front wall 4?), joined by. flaps 7', the envelope has ampleexpansibility for entering the bill.

My invention broadly contemplates a greetings device comprising a frontwall of sheet material (here taken as including parts 1 1 4b7) having anaperture, therein, and a rear wall of sheet material (here 4a) arrangedagainst the rear side of the front wall and secured thereto (by theadhesive shown in Fig. 4 on flaps '7) around three sides of saidaperture and free at the fourth side thereof and thus forming with thefront wall a pocket to receive a token to be disposed opposite theaperture, said rear wall having a picture arranged to be exposed at saidaperture. 7

' At 11 is shown the token, here a piece of paper currency, with itsvignette appearing through the apertures 3 and 6.

The panel may have side flaps 12 which are capable of being bent back onlines 13 so that they will support the device upright or easel-fashion,on a horizontal surface.

The device may have printed thereon any 6 advertisement or otherinscription of the sender, and when the bill 11 is removed'by therecipient the device still remains useful as an ornament because thepicture 5 is then Having thus fully described my invention what I claimis: p

1. The hereindescribed greetings device comprising a panel of sheetmaterial having an aperture therein and an envelope secured to thereverse side of the panel opposite the aperture, said envelope having afront wall apertured opposite said aperture and a rear wall bearing onthe obverse side thereof a picture opposite both apertures.

5 2. The hereindescribed greetings device comprising a panel of sheetmaterial having an aperture therein and an envelope consisting of apiece of sheet material folded on itself to form two walls and havingone such wall apertured and secured to the reverse face of the panelwith its aperture opposite the first aperture and its other wallprovided on its inside face with a picture opposite said apertures, saidpiece having side flaps joining the two walls thereof together at theirside edges.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JAMES HANDFORD BROVN.

